Explicit GPU Synchronization for Xwayland Is Now Finally Merged into XOrg Server
NVIDIA’s year-long request to add explicit sync support to the DRI3 and Present extensions, and the Xwayland implementation, has finally been merged.
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NVIDIA’s year-long request to add explicit sync support to the DRI3 and Present extensions, and the Xwayland implementation, has finally been merged.
KDE developer Xaver Hugl explains why the explicit synchronization protocol will finally encourage the Wayland adoption among NVIDIA GPU users.
Red Hat announces the Nova project as the successor of the Nouveau open-source driver for GSP-firmware-based NVIDIA graphics cards.
DXVK 2.3.1 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with improvements for several games.
NVIDIA 550.67 Linux graphics driver is now available for download with improved support for VKD3D games, Alan Wake 2, and Wayland systems.
NVIDIA 550.54.14 graphics driver is now available for download with numerous Wayland and Xwayland improvements, as well as many new features.
Open Source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK is now officially conformant with the Vulkan 1.0 API on NVIDIA Turing hardware.
NVIDIA 545.29.02 graphics driver for Linux is out now with support for the Night Light feature on GNOME and KDE Plasma desktops on Wayland, support to the NVIDIA VDPAU driver on Xwayland, and more.
NVIDIA 535.98 graphics driver is now available for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems with various bug fixes for OpenGL and Vulkan apps, NVIDIA PRIME Display Offload, VRR monitors, and Wayland compositors.
NVIDIA 535.86.05 graphics driver for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems is now available for download with various bug fixes.
The NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware received support for older GPUs, support for new Vulkan extensions, and much more.
NVIDIA 535.54.03 Linux graphics driver is out now with better Wayland support, support for older AMD chipsets, improved installer, and more.
A quick tutorial on how to enable/re-enable Wayland by default for GNOME for a hybrid NVIDIA graphics system on Fedora Linux 38 Workstation.
NVIDIA 530.41.03 graphics driver is now available for download with support for Linux kernel 6.2, better support for the Xfce desktop environment, as well as various other new features and improvements.
NVIDIA 525.85.05 graphics driver is now available for download. This release improved the reliability of suspend and resume on UEFI systems when using certain display panels and fixes various bugs.
NVIDIA 525.78.01 graphics driver is now available for download. This release comes with better support for Vulkan X11 apps, nvidia-settings control panel crash fix, and other changes.
NVIDIA 525.60.11 Linux graphics driver is now available for download. This release comes with Dynamic Boost support on AMD laptops, as well as many improvements and bug fixes.
NVIDIA 515.86.01 graphics driver is now available for download. This release comes with a fix for the Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered game, as well as a couple of other changes.
NVIDIA 520.56.06 graphics driver is now available for download with support for OTA updates on Proton/Wine NVIDIA NGX, Vulkan updates, improved support for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, and more.
Collabora announced today NVK as their newest Vulkan graphics driver for NVIDIA hardware to be implemented in the Mesa graphics stack.